Dan Neilson and his brother-in-law, Stan, walked Hazeltine National today, measuring, looking, and checking on the PGA Championship practice round. . . so you don't have to. We've got a couple hundred photos (20 at least of Tiger Woods for Kathleen, his biggest fan), and a close personal report on a 17-year-old Japanese sensation.And then, we have the oddest coincidence of the day to report. You know how when you go to Disneyland or Norway you always run in to somebody you know? Well today, we didn't see anybody. Nobody familiar. Until we watched our raw movie footage, that is, and then, omigosh, there he was, you could tell by the spot on the top of his head and by the voice, somebody we know oh so very well. We must have actually touched in the crowd. Yet we just didn't know it at the time. He didn't know. Ships in the night. Incredible.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. More on that later.
Tiger Woods with his caddy, Steve Williams, second shot on number 18 today. In the background is the bunker where Tiger made his famous recovery shot, one of his all-time favorites, back in 2002.